Overview

• U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the Bureau of Prisons from suspending hormone therapy and related accommodations for transgender inmates.
• The ruling blocks enforcement of President Trump’s January executive order that sought to bar federal funding for gender-affirming care in federal prisons.
• Lamberth found that the Bureau of Prisons likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act by reversing its own medical staff’s determinations without evaluating the policy’s harmful effects.
• The judge certified a class of current and future federal inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a group that totals around 1,000 people in custody.
• Plaintiffs are represented by the ACLU and Transgender Law Center, and the Justice Department is expected to appeal the decision.